Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1887-12-07
INTERESTING NEWS COMPILATION.
DOMESTIC.

which he said that he had been married
three times and that his wives all met death
at his hands -
On the piokerel grounds of Lake Erie,
near Erie, Pa, the fishing boat Maggie was
engulfed in a wave on the Goth, and Rob-
ert Pryor and James Mclaughlin were
drowned
TIE jury at New York in the case of
Johann Most, charged with making an in
cendiary speech, returned verdict Of
guilty on the Goth, notwithstanding the
judges charge was in favor OF the accused
A GOLD mine containing fabulous wealth
was, on the 29th reported to have been dis
covered by DR.: Walter Kempster, superin-
tendent of the Northern Wisconsin Insane
Asylum, In Montgomery County, Md
WILLIAM NARswA1.D died in New York on
the Goth of hydrophobia He was bitten by
q Newfoundland dog last August
JOIN B. LANG l. Co, wholesalers of dry
goods at London, Ont, failed on the Goth
for 500, OOO
A COMPANY was formed at Boston on the
29th for the purpose of building telegraph
line from New York to San Francisco
A GANG of thieves who had been operating
at the Chicago Stock Yards during the last
year and had stolen about SIC, 600 worth Of
goods from the packing houses was cap
tured On the Goth
SECRETARY LAMAR in his annual report on
the Doth says that the amount of land re-
stored to the public domain during his term
of Office through the orders revoking the
indemnity Withdrawals is 81, 1928, 600 acres
WILLIAM WILLIAMS was taken from the
Jail at Oakland, Fla. on the Doth by crowd
of negroes and lynched
A sEvEN-FooT vein of lead, containing
small quantities of silver, was discovered
on the Doth at Royal Center, Ind
TIE Mansion House at Andover, Mass
was destroyed by fire on the 29th. The
house was built over one hundred years
ago, and has been used as hotel ever since.
ABRAHAM SAxuK1s, q commercial traveller,
sued the actress Lolita at Boston on the
29th for $50, 600 damages She caused him
to miss train by stopping his conveyance.
which was drawn by q lame, WORKOUT
horse
TIE completion Of the bridge over the
mississippi river at Dubuque, La was cele-
DRAFTED on the Doth with great enthusiasm in
that city. The bridge Is twenty-eight hun
dred feet long and cost $127, 200 The
largest steamer can pass under it easily.
AT Huron, D. T., on the 29th the bodies of
John 81. Gowan and his sixteen-year-ol
daughter were found frozen stiff
AT meetings IN Philadelphia on the Goth,
the agents of the Pennsylvania Railroad
Company and the Reading Coal and Iron
Company decided to make no advance in
the price of coal for December.
GEORGE DUNHAM, aged sixty years, of New
Britain, Conn, while drunk on the 3Oth
ult fatally beat his sister with s.one and
then killed himself
TIE receipts of the Chicago Stock Yards
for the expired eleven months of 1887
show, as compared with the corresponding
period last year, an increase of 1861, 500
cattle and 346, 600 sheep, and decrease of
], O21 900 hogs.
The revenues of the Government for the
month of November amounted to about
$50, 100000
In his annual report on the 30th ult the
Postmaster-G General suggests number of
measures for the improvement of the serv-
ice, the more important being the extension
and perfection of the system Of free de-
livery, the reformation of the system of
employing and paying for railroad transpor-
tation and the establishment of additional
fast-mail service
TIE season Of lake navigation which
closed on the Both ult was unusually profit
able to vesse-owners, but very disastrous
to insurance companies on account of tho
numerous heavy gales
An old man named David Randall, Of Tur-
ner's Falls, Mass was shot dead on the 3Oth
ult while sitting by window in his house,
and his seventeen year-old son has been az
rested on a charge Of having committed the
murder.
Ar Marshalltown on the Goth ult Was
dedicated with appropriate exercises -
Iowa Soldiers Home.
TIE State of Michigan is prosecuting
claims against the United States to recover
$4,000, 600, said to be due from the sale Of
swamp lands It will also push claims
against several railroad companies to re-
cover 1870, 600 acres Of land held by Con-
gressional grants.
A TRIPLE collision occurred on the Goth
ult on the railroad between Butte City. M.
T., and Silver Bow: Several trainmen were
injured and many cars wrecked
THERE is large number of Anarchists in
Newark, n. j.. considering the size Of the
city, and they have become 80 0utsp0ken
in their denunciation 0f the authorities that
the police fear they may cause trouble h
GEORGE NORMAN, of New London, Mo-,
died ON the 3Oth ult Of hydrophobia He
was bitten by q small dog last summer
In the Haddock murder trial at Sioux
City. La. on the Goth ult John Arensdorf
the defendant, gave hts testimony, denying
completely in the crime. but contradicted
some Of his statements ut the former trial
Az the stone-quarry OF Walton d Son,
about three miles from Hunnelstown. Pa.
four men were killed and one wounded by
the caying-in of earth on the 3Oth ult.
A FARMER named Hby shot and killed two
colored men on the 3Oth nit who attacked
him on his farm In Marlboro County, 8 @
A FIRE on the 3Oth ult In the stroWbridge
Autograph Company's establishment In
CincinnaM caused . loss Of $500, 600
TIVE party to make the final survey Of tho
Nicaragua Canal Construction Company
sailed from New York on the 3Oth nit The
survey will not be finished till April or May.
TEE trial of T. i Harper for wrecking the
{ Fidelity Bank of Cincinnati commenced in
that city on the 80 huit
a NUnBE1 Of vessels were driven ashore
on the 1st by the storms Of the Massachu-
sets coast, and the los would be heavy.
DANIEL NcIxII.AH and D. J. Jones' two
yonng men Of straubyille. D. =. were suit
located BY coal gas on the LIT
OF the lat CLARK and Nosss Harrison